In bed with a predator: The disowning of Judge Roy Moore

Beverly Young Nelson recounted how Alabama senator Roy Moore, a regular customer at the restaurant where she began working as a 15-year-old waitress, flirted with her and touched her then-flowing red locks. (Susan Watts/New York Daily News)

In the detailed and compelling recollection of Beverly Young Nelson, Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore is a man who, in his thirties, not only wooed and groped teenage girls — but attempted violent rape, then used his status as a prosecutor to intimidate his victim.

As if that weren't enough, 12 people told the New Yorker that Moore had been banned from a local mall for badgering teenage girls.

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This is a moral monster. And he could still wind up in the United States Senate.

"I believe the women," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declared Monday, "the women" being those who have stepped forward to describe, in detail and with corroborating evidence, the predatory behavior of Moore toward teenage girls.

Just hours later, Nelson related her encounter. While in some ways her story echoed Corfman's eerily, in her telling the then-thirtysomething prosecutor was even more brutal and predatory.

More than a dozen GOP senators have called for Roy Moore to get out or pulled their endorsement. (Brynn Anderson/AP)

Nelson recounted how Moore, a regular customer at the restaurant where she began working as a 15-year-old waitress, flirted with her and touched her then-flowing red locks.

A day after she turned 16, around Christmas, Nelson had placed her yearbook on the counter. The grown man picked it up and wrote, "To a sweeter more beautiful girl I could not say 'Merry Christmas,'" signing it, "Love, Roy Moore, DA."

A week later, Nelson says, Moore offered her a ride home. He parked the car between the restaurant and a dumpster — and attacked her, trying to force her head into his lap and tear off her clothes.

Her words: "I was twisting and struggling and begging him to stop. I had tears running down my face." After she resisted, she says, he opened the door, let her fall out and drove off — telling her he was a prosecutor and no one would believe her.

Moore's rabid defenders call all this a coordinated liberal plot to smear their hero. But after Nelson's account — and her offer to testify under oath — only hollow men and women can stand by him.

More than a dozen GOP senators have called for Moore to get out or pulled their endorsement, without weasely "if" words. It's a catastrophe that the rest, and Donald Trump, have yet to do so.